Fiona Breen

Landline reporter Fiona Breen is probably best known for her reports from some of Tasmania's most remote spots.She's camped in the State's rugged South West waiting for a glimpse of the rare Orange Bellied Parrot, searched for fossils in the Central Highlands and joined fishermen working in Bass Strait.Her favourite assignment for the ABC has been on Macquarie island, halfway between Tasmania and the Antarctic.Fiona spent a week on the World Heritage Listed island walking nearly it's length reporting on a team of hunters and dog handlers involved in a multimillion dollar pest eradication program.Fiona has worked for the ABC in Hobart, Launceston, Burnie and Canberra, she also spent about eight years working in commercial television in Sydney.A lover of the outdoors she was drawn back to her home state by the perfect combination of a great lifestyle and a senior reporting role in the ABC's Hobart newsroom.In her spare time she loves to get outside biking, bushwalking or snorkelling with family and friends.

A small town is fearful that graves at its local cemetery will be damaged or destroyed if the Anglican Church sells it off, but the church says it is the responsibility of government to protect cemeteries.

Have you heard of Schioppettino, Tinta Cao, Sousao, Gruner Veltliner, Muller-Thurgau, Bianco d'Alessano? They're all lesser-known, niche grape varieties that some of the nation's young winemakers are experimenting with.

The bloodlines of Fairvale's Holstein Friesians have won Leanne and Ross Dobson international awards and the admiration of breeders around the world. But after a lifetime in the dairy industry, they're selling the business.

The ancient craft of hedge laying is revived in parts of southern Australia, with people cutting, bending and chainsawing the thorny plants into shape in an effort to restore some of the nation's first farming fences.

Scientists are employing the help of elephant seals in Antarctica to gather crucial information about the Southern Ocean, but first the animals need to be fitted with one vital piece of equipment: a sensor on their head.

To combat the drift away from wool production in Australia, European luxury fabric makers have set up Wool Excellence Clubs, rewarding what they say are the very best Australian wool producers with top prices.